Essays about: "impact of the cold war"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 25 essays containing the words impact of the cold war.

  1. 6. PARTNERS IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT? EU-UN cooperation in the DRC and Chad

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Giselaldina Duro; [2020-05-04]
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    Abstract : This thesis seeks to explain the reason why international and regional organisations have started to cooperate, especially after the Cold War. Cooperation amongst organisations has gained importance as a field of research in the last decade, but most of the scholars have rather given a descriptive contribution and recognised the legal implications on the matter. READ MORE

  2. 7. From Victory to Defeat? How Human Rights Infringements in Foreign Policy During the War on Terror Contributed to the Decline of Democracy in the US

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Marco Bouwmans; [2020]
    Keywords : decline of democracy; foreign policy; human rights infringements; War on Terror; equality; historical institutionalism;

    Abstract : As democracy globally declines according to the indices that measure the level of democracy around the world, existing literature lines up a wide spectrum of explanations for this decline. However, the impact of foreign policy on the domestic democratic system is widely overlooked. READ MORE

  3. 8. Democracy by Force : The Impact of US Military Intervention on Democracy in Post-Cold War Haiti

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Latinamerikainstitutet

    Author : Daniel Riley; [2019]
    Keywords : Haitian Democracy; US Intervention; Political History; Geopolitics;

    Abstract : This paper contributes to the current debate on the democratic impact of US military intervention in the post-Cold War era through a comparative study of two interventions in Haiti in 1994 and 2004. Due to a lack of significant academic work on Haitian democratisation, theory could not be found to sufficiently define Haiti as a political entity. READ MORE

  4. 9. The controversies of destructive spending: Arms production and growth in the post-Cold War era

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Athina Swahn; Anja Tuneld; [2018]
    Keywords : Arms trade; Beyond GDP; Defense spending; Economic growth; Military expenditure;

    Abstract : Critics of the GDP measure are claiming that it fails to capture the true well-being of a country and demand that alternative measures be developed. To determine how the destructive spending on arms should enter a new measure, an understanding of its effects on GDP is required. READ MORE

  5. 10. UNDERSTANDING MULTILATERAL COOPERATION IN AFRICAN PEACE OPERATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE UN-AU-EU PEACE SUPPORT TRILATERAL COOPERATION NEXUS

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Lwanga Egbewatt Arrey; [2017]
    Keywords : Peace operations; resource asymmetry; Somalia; cooperation; international organization; conflict; UN; AU; EU;

    Abstract : Literature on peace operations has revealed that since the end of the Cold war, especially since the early 2000s, there has been a rapid increase in the number of peacekeeping missions around the world, accompanied by an increase in multidimensionality. This development is said to have led to the most prominent organization involved in peacekeeping, the UN, along with others like the AU and EU, to experience an overstretch of their resources, thereby making cooperation between these three organizations necessary in this endeavor. READ MORE